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    What's the bleakest, most depressive music you can think of?

    "People who died" by the Jim Carroll band.not the music, just the lyrics.
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    Anyone setup HomeAssistant with IKEA Smart kit

    I got into Homeassistant earlier in the year and I've replaced the majority of my light switches and my 2 main downstairs lights with Zigbee stuff (currently i have 19 zigbee devices running off a "SONOFF Universal Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus" attached to a raspberry Pi 4 using Zigbee2MQTT)...
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    Sultanas in curry

    Probably related to the invention of Coronation chicken in the 50s... I would imagine that's what curry was to parents of a certain age.
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    Moneys no object... . Which car??

    I pass a big house on the way to work where the owner has 5-6 older cars in a courtyard including one that looks exactly like that. I assume that's an 850 T5R ?
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    The end?

    I assumed it was because i hadn't posted anything apart (I don't really have a lot to say!) had no profile pic and i was following a Few NAFO accounts... so i didn't really have a "History" and was a new account.
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    The end?

    I followed him for a bit. then suddenly realised he'd blocked me. The only way i can view his posts are to not log in! (Sadface)
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    Tanganga - £1.2m release clause?

    Ah! I thought the name was familiar, i think he was featured on the Amazon series "All or nothing Tottenham Hotspur" .
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    What did people call their Grandad?

    Dads dad was Grandad. Mams Dad was Grandad <Surname>. We saw a lot more of my dads dad than my mams dad as he lived just around the corner whereas my mams dad lived about 30 miles away,
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    Has anyone struggled post retirement ?

    That would be really handy for me as the new ground at Farington is about a mile from my house. Problem is, i can't stand cricket!
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    Which bands/artists did your folks play when you were a nipper

    Mam used to love a bit of Shakin' Stevens. Dad liked the older rock and roll stuff. he loved it when jive bunny was in the charts!
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    How modern life makes us lazy

    Lazy is... fitting Zigbee lights and switches and an amazon echo so you don't have to get up off the sofa to turn the light on at the switch which is 6 foot away from the sofa. I definitely didn't do that. honest.
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    Advice on Manchester drop off / parking for the Oasis concert

    I used to live in Middleton, which is about 2 miles away. I went to the last set of Oasis gigs there... it was bedlam at kicking out time and Middleton road near Sainsburys was rammed. so we walked back home. Drop off, i would come off the 62 at junction 19, go through Middleton and head...
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    I'm getting worried that we haven't signed anyone

    I'd like to be the first person to say that our first signing is rubbish. whoever they are. Stealing a living. etc.
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    Obscure films you would recommend

    He never died. Henry Rollins was perfectly cast as the main character.
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    Anyone else really dislike Apple products?

    Yep, I fell out with them when i had an old iPhone 3Gs, the volume button fell off and i took it to an apple store and they tried to charge me 180 to glue it back on. When i said that i wasn't willing to pay that and I'd just go and get an android phone they did it for free. Also, they changed...
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